J.M.W Turner RA, arguably our greatest landscape painter, was born a Georgian - an era when attitudes to sex and marriage were perhaps at...

I have curated an exhibition with my friend and colleague Dr Jacqueline Riding, featuring Turner's nudes and erotica. It's on now and...

If you are in London please come along. If not you can catch me online. Details below https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/175565951487

I'm delighted to be talking about Holbein and the court of Henry VIII in Gloucester next week, on September 15th. It's a stunning...

https://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/?s=Franny+Moyle

Tickets are available from Sept 10th https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/whats-on/2021/l120-the-kings-painter-the-life-and-tim...

I'll be giving a zoom talk to the St Alban's and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archeaological Society on Tuesday Sep 7th - you can buy...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/best-books-to-read-this-summer-krh6tk7kn

Have a look of what Michael Prodger has to say about The King's Painter. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-kings-painter-by-franny-m...

Hear me talk Holbein on May 28th https://www.historyextra.com/period/tudor/painting-tudors-hans-holbein-younger-podcast-franny-moyle/

Hans Holbein was born in Augsburg in Bavaria in 1497. His father and uncle ran a successful workshop in the city, producing devotional...

In 1519 both Hans Holbein and his close friend Bonifacius Amerbach lost brothers to the plague. It was perhaps at this moment when,...

Have I discovered a portrait of Anne of Cleves? You decide. See article

Catch up on BBC Sounds : The King’s Painter was Book of the Week in May. See link

Hear me talk about Holbein in this new documentary on the History Hit platform. See link

Read how I discovered the earliest known portrait of Hans Holbein in Augsburg in Germany, See article

At the end of 1533, a very large item of personal luggage was manhandled onto a ship from one of London’s docks, headed for France. It...